Aptoide Reviews

Pros

Very diverse team in terms of backgrounds, skills, culture and experience. Extremely dynamic and vibrant community of Aptoide users. Very interesting technological and business challenges.

Cons

All hands on deck is taken to the extreme. People are asked to do tasks for which they've had no training, experience or even interest. Non existing knowledge management. Tense work environment reinforced by top management and the HR practices. Entire teams made up of multiple managers with a single individual doing operational tasks. High employee turnover.

Advice to Management

Reduce micromanagement. Empower middle managers and make more efforts to retain the most productive operatives. Establish clear performance reviews and goals for individuals and teams. Don't reinvent the wheel. Many internal processes don't take into account standard industry practices.

Pros

- Good fringe benefits - very good health insurance and then the typical package: phone + fruit in the office. - Talented individuals, people from differente cultures and backgrounds. A good international environment. - Good salary

Cons

- Poor communication strategy within the company. Decisions are made and unmade at light speed and often communicated on spot, when communicated at all. - Noxious culture. Apart from good individuals that you meet there, you won't find the typical helpful environment, but instead an "every man for himself" approach. - The IT / Tech area is a very closed branch of the company, often unwilling to communicate and... pair up with the business side to evolve and work on the company strategy. - The founders pretty much decide everything, so there's not much room for Leads, teams leaders and management to suggest or implement their ideas. They micromanage and even decide where employees will seat. - No career path designed or implemented. People tend to have a very narrow autonomy and responsibility, which is kind of strange considering you're working for a startup. This, again, is caused by founders that tend to run the company the same way you run a class from the 7th grade, you do as they tell you to and no more.

Advice to Management

Middle management will help you work closer to people. They will allow you to have more time to think about the strategy for the company as a whole, without hurting the people management and growth. Accept other people's idea and that you don't have answers to every question. Trust the talented people you decide to hire. It was your decision to have them onboard, it's your responsibility to manage them, and not... micromanage.

Pros

You get the chance to work with a very young and dynamic team. The compensations are usually above average and you get benefits such as health insurance and a smartphone. There's a very fair work/life balance.

Cons

There is no proper management skills across the company and it still relies a lot on the feedback of the top management instead of trusting middle management. Small and big accomplishments aren't celebrated. There's not a lot of humanity in the company, although this is a very small company employees are just numbers to the management. You don't have any Personal Development Plan within the company and the... only focus of the Human Resources team is to hire people, without any strategy whatsoever, rather than maintain talent.

Advice to Management

The success of the company will always rely on the people that are part of the company and their motivation - if you take care of people and work to maintain talent you'll be surprised how much success the company can achieve

Pros

Nice work-life balance, friendly environment.

Cons

Micro management doesn't allow people to grow. Genereally speaking, no organization in task distribution / long term planning. Disregard for what the employees want to do with their careers.

Advice to Management

Don't micromanage.

Pros

If you are a mobile addict, if you are an Android lover, if being part of an active, global, growing community is part of your DNA... Aptoide is your ecosystem and os the place where you need to be. Being an Aptoider is believing in innovation, is being part of a living online organism that is the contact point of several million people around the world... Being an Aptoider is having the possibility to be part of... a team that wants to change the world... One APP after the other. At the Lisbon Office you will fins a young, passionate, energetic team ready to embrace new challenges and to prove that what many thought to be impossible is the driving force of our work. After being in some companies and projects where I felt only a number... Here I feel I am part of a team, that lives the project as its own and that is commited in delivering the best possible experience to our users.

Cons

Chilli air ventilation... I had to Stay something, right?

Advice to Management

Thanks for allowing your team to feel empowered to challenge themselves everyday, every ticket

Pros

Working in Aptoide has been an amazing adventure so far. When it comes to daily tasks, we are encouraged to innovate and to bring new ideas to the management team. We're constantly learning. Also, the environment and the bond between employees is great. Great people always ready to help and to collaborate in order to deliver the best work possible.

Cons

As the company is growing exponentially, I believe the major con is the lack of internal processes.

Advice to Management

As Aptoide is constantly growing, try to keep this good environment in-house by remembering that if the employees are happy, the dedication and the passion towards the work is going to become the major strength for the company to keep succeeding. Employees satisfaction is gold

Pros

Awesome work environment Teamwork Work-life balance Salaries above the average

Cons

The management have difficulties to delegate tasks Poor knowledge management Poor internal communication

Advice to Management

Trust your team and delegate responsabilities

Pros

friendly, open, diverse, high tech

Cons

not much career guide or development plan

Advice to Management

more development plan, professional training